The controversy began after the Kiev Fashion Lavaz account on messaging app Telegram, compared an article by Ms Sushko to a piece written in 2006 by the journalist Shakri Amirkhanova for Harper’s Bazaar Russia.

In a joint statement, the magazine’s owners Conde Nast and publishers Media Group Ukraine said they “are categorically against plagiarism” and have begun an “internal investigation to clarify all the circumstances and details of what happened”.

The publishers added: “At the time of the investigation, Olga Sushko will be removed from the post of editor-in-chief of Vogue UA.”